Classpath exception
Simon Phipps
webmink at Sun.COM
Wed Mar 11 18:09:49 UTC 2009
As was widely discussed at the time, as a subset of the overall
licensing decision Sun made this particular choice as a way to signal
to the GNU project that OpenJDK was intended as a unifying action with
Classpath and the host of other related GPL-licensed projects. We
recognised that we could have used several licensing arrangements such
as the one you identify, but we wanted to make absolutely sure that
there was no doubt that the licensing arrangement was 100% compatible
with GNU and that there was no cunning tricksy plan around the
licensing.
S.
On Mar 11, 2009, at 13:46, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> A non-F/OSS-savvy co-worker asked me (as the resident F/OSS expert
> in a
> mostly closed-source shop) about the implications of the GPL for Java
> code. The quick answer is that HotSpot and the standard library are
> distributed under the GPL with the classpath exception, but I'm a
> little
> unclear on the details of the latter. If it thinks what I think it
> means, I don't see why Sun couldn't simply have used the LGPL. Any
> pointers?
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
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